Hi,
my name is Piotr and I’m new to this list; I learned about MusicBrainz
some time ago and finally got to filtering most of my music through
Picard. Thanks a lot for your work on this great service!
I’m writing because in my spree on capitalisation fixing I went
too far and changed ‘Music From Siesta’ to ‘Music from Siesta’,
assuming that uppercased ‘from’ is an obvious mistake. I was
quickly corrected at http://musicbrainz.org/edit/14638851 (thanks,
jacobbrett!) and it was suggested that I ask here first.
I tried looking through the list archives, but they’re not
really very navigable, so apologies if it was settled already
(please tell me if so, I’ll go looking more closely): should ‘from’,
‘with’ and other four‐letter prepositions be capitalised or not?
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Language/English says ‘“from”, “into”,
“onto”, and “with” are common and almost always used as prepositions,
so there is a rather good case for including them [on the lower‐cased
list’, but they’re not on the list; to the best of my knowledge most
of style guides (such as http://aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/midi/help/caps.html
which I’ve been using for years) say ‘from’ et al. should be lowercased.
So, my question is whether this was decided
already, and if so in which direction?
— Piotr Szotkowski
--
Normaliser Unix c’est comme pasteuriser le camembert.
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